India bids adieu to Vajpayee

NEW DELHI: India on Friday bid adieu to one of its most respected leaders, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 93. As national leaders and his close ones clad in white clothes stood in solemnity by the pyre and amid chants of Vedic hymns, the poet-prime minister’s foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya lit the pyre at Smrithi Sthal, in a break from the tradition of a male family member performing

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